However navigation devices in the future could be smart enough to know when they have upset the driver and react accordingly.

Prof Peter Robinson, head of emotional robotics at Cambridge University, is working on devising a generation of smart computers which will be able to detect and react to users’ moods.

One application could be in a satnav systems which could use the technology to display some sympathy with a driver’s state of mind and react accordingly.

“I love gadgets like GPS satellite navigation systems but I hate the fact they are so difficult to use, I think they were designed by sadists,” he said. “The problem is computers don’t react to how I feel – if I’m pleased or annoyed they just ignore me.

“We’re building emotionally intelligent computers that can read my mind and know how I feel.

Radio Archives

Give Your Support

The Global Reality represents a tireless effort to search, gather, and present information that even some alternative media channels refuse to discuss, let alone the mainstream. This effort is provided with no advertisements, no selling of products or services that are irrelevant and useless. There is only one sponsor: YOU!

Support the information that's in your right to know, that "they" dare not want you to know.

Notice: We can now take manual credit card entries for DVD's or donations. Those who do not want to use Paypal can now send your credit card number, expiration date, 3 digit security code and zip code to globalrealityshow@gmail.com along with the amount of purchase and we can process your order into our Paypal account without you having to use Paypal at all.